Michael Yudelson
Technology Strategy Lead (acting CTO)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Yudelson is a technology strategy lead and acting CTO with 13+ years building production ML and AI systems that scale from research prototypes to million-user services. He holds a Ph.D. in Information Science and a deep track record across education and assessment products—driving models and infrastructure that doubled client bases, served millions of students, and reduced in-app or processing time by dozens of percent. At Chegg he led RAG and LLM fine-tuning efforts that improved accuracy and automated evaluation pipelines, while at BrainPOP and ACT he delivered high-impact ML scoring and diagnostic systems largely with minimal resources. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and strategic leadership, he translates product vision into scalable architecture and mentors teams to ship under uncertainty. His academic work produced over 90 publications and an often-cited open-source Bayesian modeling tool, reflecting a rare blend of rigorous research and practical deployment experience. Based in Pittsburgh, he now seeks senior roles where data-driven strategy and AI engineering intersect to create measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, International Political Science, Journalism, and Media Technologies, Master of Arts - MA, International Political Science, Journalism, and Media Technologies at Institute of Russian Political Culture, Moscow, RussiaPh.D., Information Science, Ph.D., Information Science at University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
English, French
Stackoverflow
26reputation
133reached
2answers
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Github Skills (3)
scale9
sql6
mysql6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
myudelson/myudelson.github.io
May 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:100 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 6 months
myudelson/hmm-scalable
Jun 2015 - Mar 2021
Contributions:52 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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